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A faint gurgle shook the magnolias behind them, and a long liquid whisper answered it from the thicket of laurel above their heads. "It's a little late in the year for them: they're ending just as we begin." Susy laughed. "I hope when our
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“That's why people take vacations. No to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things.”
― White Noise
― White Noise
“Everyone, deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come.”
― 1Q84
― 1Q84
“It wasn’t about who had dibs now or who was sitting next to whom in the cinema. The game had changed; or rather, it wasn’t a game at all anymore. It was a matter of making it through the night, which is often harder than it sounds, and always a very individual business.”
― Rules of Civility
― Rules of Civility
“Uncompromising purpose and the search for eternal truth have an unquestionable sex appeal for the young and high-minded; but when a person loses the ability to take pleasure in the mundane--in the cigarette on the stoop or the gingersnap in the bath--she had probably put herself in unnecessary danger.”
― Rules of Civility
― Rules of Civility
“It’s quite a thing when the world is upside down to hear someone say it don’t have to be—that a man could be paid enough to feed and house himself.”
― The Cold Millions
― The Cold Millions
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